{"podcast":{"title":"Dr. John Campbell","slug":"dr-john-campbell-7851784","podcast_index_feed_id":7851784,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/VG9554039150","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/7a133470-32e4-11f1-ae26-ef5a830a5f06/image/aacd596ff9b51467520b0238cfcd1c87.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Campbellteaching","episode_count":480,"summary":"Hello Everyone, My name is John Campbell and I am a retired Nurse Teacher and former clinical nurse based in England. I also do some teaching in Asia and Africa when time permits. These videos are to help students to learn the background to all forms of health care. My PhD focused on the development of open learning resources for nurses nationally and internationally. LinkedIn profile, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-john-campbell-5256223b/ Twitter, https://twitter.com/Johnincarlisle Disclaimer; These media including videos, book, e book, articles, podcasts are not peer-reviewed. They should never replace individual clinical judgement from your own health care provider. No media-based material on this channel is suitable for using as professional medical advice. All comments are also for educational purposed only and must never replace advice from your own health care provider","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T10:19:57.883522+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784"},"episode":{"title":"Global deaths under-reported","slug":"global-deaths-under-reported","published_at":"2026-06-29T02:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784/global-deaths-under-reported","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG5466416649.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG5466416649.mp3","summary":"Under reporting of deaths, 19 months into the pandemic https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html Total deaths, 5,018,949 Total cases, 247,883,004 Total vaccine doses, 7,129,732,439 World Health Organization https://www.who.int/data/stories/the-true-death-toll-of-covid-19-estimating-global-excess-mortality Based on the excess mortality estimates produced for 2020 we are likely facing a significant undercount of total deaths directly and indirectly attributed to COVID-19 Many countries still lack functioning civil registration and vital statistics systems Percentage of registered deaths https://www.who.int/data/data-collection-tools/score/dashboard#/ 98% in the European 10% in the African region Comparisons difficult Excess mortality The difference in the total number of deaths in a crisis, compared to those expected under normal conditions Therefore, includes direct and indirect impact WHO, 2020 data Official, 1,813,100 Lower bound, 3 million Region of the Americas in 2020 Excess mortality estimates range from 1.34 to 1.46 million 60% more than reported European Region in 2020 Excess mortality estimates range from 1.11 to 1.21 million 50% more than reported https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates Excess death calculations Actual worldwide toll, 16.8 million excess deaths 95% probability, 10.3 million to 19.5 million Official versus actual deaths (Economist) US, deaths = 745,274 US, deaths = 860,000 to 1 million China, deaths = 4,600 China, deaths = 150,000 to 1,700,000 India, deaths = 458,000 India, deaths = 1.2 million to 7.2 million Russia, deaths = 236,462 Russia, deaths = 870,000 to 910,000 Indonesia, deaths = 143,457 Indonesia, deaths = 300,000 to 1.2 million Pakistan, deaths = 28,477 Pakistan, deaths = 300,000 to 910,000 Bangladesh,…","meta_description":"Under reporting of deaths, 19 months into the pandemic https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html Total deaths, 5,018,949 Total cases, 247,883,004 Total vaccine…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1337,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dr-john-campbell-7851784/episodes/global-deaths-under-reported/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784/global-deaths-under-reported.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}